FINE TEA-DUST GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
£7,853
Auction: 31 May 2016 at 19:00 BST
Description
potted with a compressed globular body raised on a slightly splayed foot, the tall slender neck flaring gently at the mouth rim, covered in an olive green glaze with thin dark speckles throughout
Dimensions
23cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Property of a Pennsylvania collector; old Christie's label to base, formerly from the collection of Vermeer & Griggs.
Note:
For an example of similar form, see Christie's sale in their Hong Kong rooms on 28th May 2014, lot 2906.
A smaller tea-dust bottle vase, also from the collection of Michael L. Vermeer, was sold at Christie's New York, 17-18th September 2015, lot 2201.